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          Copies bytes from a source buffer sequence to a target buffer sequence.
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<pre class="programlisting">template&lt;
    typename <a class="link" href="../MutableBufferSequence.html" title="Mutable buffer sequence requirements">MutableBufferSequence</a>,
    typename <a class="link" href="../ConstBufferSequence.html" title="Constant buffer sequence requirements">ConstBufferSequence</a>&gt;
std::size_t buffer_copy(
    const MutableBufferSequence &amp; target,
    const ConstBufferSequence &amp; source);
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<dt><span class="term">target</span></dt>
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                A modifiable buffer sequence representing the memory regions to which
                the bytes will be copied.
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<dt><span class="term">source</span></dt>
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                A non-modifiable buffer sequence representing the memory regions
                from which the bytes will be copied.
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          The number of bytes copied.
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          The number of bytes copied is the lesser of:
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              <code class="computeroutput">buffer_size(target)</code>
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              <code class="computeroutput">buffer_size(source)</code>
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          This function is implemented in terms of <code class="computeroutput">memcpy</code>, and consequently
          it cannot be used to copy between overlapping memory regions.
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